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June 21, 2009
Bills
Introduced To Provide “Free-Mail-To-Troops” Postage Benefit
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Legislation—H.R. 704 (and the identical H.R. 2126) and H.R.
707—has been introduced in the 111th Congress to establish a
free-mail-to-troops postage benefit. Each of these bills would
provide members of the Armed Forces serving overseas with
free-postage vouchers every month. Recipients of these vouchers
would be able to transfer them to family members or other
persons in the United States, who then could use the vouchers to
mail a letter or package to the troops postage-free. The DOD
would provide advance transfers of funds to the USPS to cover
the Postal Service’s costs in delivering the mail to the APOs
and FPOs
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APWU, USPS
Eliminate Face-to-Face Step 3 Grievance Meetings
An article by Steve Zamanakos, APWU Denver Region Clerk NBA : "NBAs
all across the country have been relegated to the telemarketers
abyss. Effective in June, all Step 3 meetings and Direct Appeal
meetings must now be conducted over the phone." The officers at
Headquarters APWU tell us in the field that this latest
agreement to meet over the phone is being done as a "cost
saving" measure.
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I've
got the blue postal box blues
Mailboxes are dying faster than
houseflies that mess with Barack Obama. The U.S. Postal Service
has taken a use-it-or-lose-it approach to the collection boxes.
If a box can't attract at least 25 pieces of mail a day on
average, it's toast. There's no hiding from the density tests
that are being conducted.
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Marine gets a
not-so-special delivery
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